Justin Bieber is the cover star of ‘Love’ magazine

The teen singing sensation is 'The Beautiful One' in the new issue of 'Love'.

BY Phong Luu |
03 February 2011

Justin Bieber, styled by Tabitha Simmons, in the March issue of 'Love' Photo: TERRY RICHARDSON

Justin Bieber, styled by Tabitha Simmons, in the March issue of 'Love' Photo: TERRY RICHARDSON

Justin Bieber, styled by Tabitha Simmons, in the March issue of 'Love' Photo: TERRY RICHARDSON

Kate Moss, styled by Katie Grand, on the cover of the March issue of 'Love' Photo: MERT ALAS/MARCUS PIGGOTT

"There will be one less lonely girl," chirped hot teen-popper Justin Bieber in his mega hit. Scrap that figure and try several thousand: to the decibel-raising screams of his pubescent fans, the Bieber has made the cover of the new issue of
Love
magazine.

Shot by celebrity photographer Terry Richardson (he of the sloth-donning-models-in-Pirelli-Calendar fame), the super zoomed-in portrait shows 16-year-old Bieber, tagged as "The Beautiful One", in all his thick-lashed, dewy-skinned glory. He appears on the back of the hip glossy's special multiple covers "Androgynous" issue, which also features a make-up free, boyish-looking Kate Moss (newly-engaged to rocker Jamie Hince, if the rumours are true) on the front. Another cover sees Moss liplocking with transgender model
du jour
, Lea T.

In the accompanying interview and photo shoot with Richardson, the pretty boy does his best Blue Steel in a moody black-and-white portrait, monkeys around with a pair of broken glasses, and pulls some adorably kawaii poses, which should please his legion of teenage-girl fans, aka the "Biebettes". "He was cool, man," says Bieber of Richardson. "It was the first one I ever enjoyed. He's the man."

Speaking about his singing career, Bieber has grand plans. "No matter how old you were, you loved Michael Jackson. 16-year-old girls loved Michael. 60-year-old men loved Michael. That's kind of the level I want to go down," he says. (Ah, is that why he dons a Jacko-mimicking trilby instead of his signature baseball cap in the shoot?)

Of his age and his young following, he says: "You don't want to grow up too quick. A lot of people make that mistake. You just got to remember that there's an audience you want to keep as well as an audience you want to gain. You don't want to lose audience. That's the trick. You can go from being young and growing older, but you don't have to get rid of those younger fans…those are the ones that will be most loyal."

Bieber comes fresh from cover duties for
Vanity Fair
's February issue, and modelling for US
Elle
's fashion pages last September. With
Love
's patronage, we do believe the fashion world has truly been hit by "Bieber Fever"…